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Frank yesterday canceled two speeches he was scheduled to deliver this month on the subject of the House ethics committee and ethics reform legislation. The five-term legislator was scheduled to speak to the Senior Executives Association today at the Quality Inn on Capitol Hill and later this month to the American Political Science Association...
...principle, legitimate. Those who groan reflexively when needled or critiqued simply confirm the aphorism about journalistic skins being thinner than the average American adult's. What stokes my personal I.L. is the frequency of error in these items. The venerable practice of checking ostensible facts with the story's subject seems to be declining...
...Soviet psychiatrists: whether admitting them or barring them was more likely to encourage reform. For a year, outgoing W.P.A. president Costas Stefanis of Greece had doggedly lobbied for readmission on the grounds that it would encourage rehabilitation. He contended that the Soviets as members of the W.P.A. would be subject to greater scrutiny and influence from abroad than they would be as outcasts. Others who favored readmission, including U.S. psychiatrists Alfred Freedman and Abraham Halpern, argued that during the past few years -- especially in the months preceding the Americans' March visit -- the Soviets had satisfied the criteria established for readmission...
Ishiguro's mastery of this subject and its proper tone are uncanny. Born in | Nagasaki in 1954, he was brought to England with his family six years later and educated there. His two earlier novels were set in Japan, but this one displays a sure grasp of another island culture -- England's -- that has been notoriously impervious to outsiders and immigrants. Furthermore, the young author writes with assurance about events that took place before he was born, and he does so in the utterly convincing voice of an aging Englishman...
Even its soundtrack, which includes Van Morrison, Otis Redding and Little Feat, does not help. The movie's problem is not its dialogue, acting, or production; its problem is a stale subject which hardly shows up even on primetime anymore...